Dim Views



The crowd waits in suspence
Wanting their team to knock the ball over the fence,
only to be disappointed by it all,
When the umpire gives a bad call.

Umpires can't always be right.
Sometimes there will be a fight.
We can always take dim views,
of umpires, until we wear their shoes.
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Submitted on March 11, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABB CCAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 275
Words 53
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

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